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[Komal Gupta @Komal02412]

Garbage dumped on main roads in Badhkal, Sector 21-D area in Faridabad. Already highlighted concern to Nagar Nigam but the response was that machines are not available for removal of garbage. @VipulGoelBJP for your immediate attention to this matter please.

[A @Naivelysmart]

This.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning multiple ages all the way back to a creation myth as detailed in separate volumes? You didn't first invent new languages and dialects for your characters? You didn't pack it with powerful themes and stories written it in a beautiful, archaic style and compose poems and songs alongside? It didn't take you multiple decades of iteration? And what of all the uncharted territory still remaining? Is Tom Bombadil one of the Ainur. Where are the Entwives. What happened to the two unaccounted Istari. Can we hear more about what it was like in Cuiviénen when the elves first awoke? Or to see the light of the two trees of Valinor. Or of the splendor of the caves of Aglarond.

What's most on my mind though - the Tolkien legendarium is imo a concrete example of a height of culture. Does AI, today or soon, make it easier to reach this high via empowerment in both writing and ideation? Or harder, when quick wins are tempting and ~free, and an independent ability to create is stifled. If such a body of work is made again but now with heavy AI assistance, does it inspire the same wonder? What if thousands of them come out on demand with just a prompt? Why do you feel cheated when you learn that something your read was AI generated? Is it transient or a function of capability? Is it slop? What is slop? Or is wonder inseparable from its own creation myth of a lifelong obsession of a mind like your own? So many questions.

[A @Naivelysmart]

@MACHIN3_LEARNER @Karma7407 @mitrapredator The missile’s test trajectory can be varied; for example, it may follow a steeper, more acute parabolic path to evaluate its range capabilities, even if the actual horizontal displacement during the test is shorter

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

J.R.R. Tolkien was a linguist (spoke ~15 languages), conlanger (created ~15 more of his own), soldier, professor, and father of modern fantasy.

But most don't know he was also a master illustrator — he made these for The Hobbit... 🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This window is over 400 years old.

It's the perfect example of a "jali", an intricately carved stone window common in Indian Architecture.

And it's just one of the many things that make Indian Architecture so special...

[Daily Harry Potter @TheDailyHPotter]

This image hurts 💔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

India's 16-year-old para-archer Sheetal Devi produced a sensational effort in the final of the women's individual compound event at the Asian Para Games to win the gold medal. With no arms.

[J.P. Hovey @jhovey34]

The brains of Schulz and his team are insane, this is so good 😂😂�

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization?

A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have DNA evidence that answers these questions with a high degree of certainty.

🧵

[Irroh @irroh45]

Men in their softest version >> 🥹💗

[A @Naivelysmart]

@GabbbarSingh Does any of that explains why Modi won only by 1.5 lakh votes only? There are some other factors at play too in UP.

[A @Naivelysmart]

If this is how our tax money is being used, I don't feel sorry for people siphoning off taxes through money laundering.

[National Ayush Mission, Uttar Pradesh @AyushMissionUP_]

50 Bedded Integrated Ayush Hospital Varanasi

[zenrainman @zenrainman]

With you May the 4th be.

[A @Naivelysmart]

@theliverdoc I guess this is a badge of honour to be blocked by this hypocritical fraud.

[A @Naivelysmart]

People like @theliverdoc would use all their fancy jargons and eloquism to gaslight you into believing that there is a rationale behind transplanting a heart to a foreign national. This isn't humanism when your own countrymen are dying and you decide to skip list for a foreigner.

[A @Naivelysmart]

@theliverdoc https://t.co/29HaDriUr5

[A @Naivelysmart]

Liverpool throwing it away during the end stages of Premier league. Again. Sell me a new script ffs.